Was Doctors Center Hospital hit by ransomware?

Doctors Center Hospital was listed by the Projectrelic ransomware operation (Puerto Rico), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Projectrelic ransomware group?

Projectrelic is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Doctors Center Hospital breach?

Projectrelic published data attributed to Doctors Center Hospital. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Doctors Center Hospital

Claimed by Projectrelic · listed 4 years ago

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Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedDec 18, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Projectrelic
Status: Data leaked
Country: Puerto Rico
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Dec 18, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Doctors Center Hospital is a hospital network based in Puerto Rico, described as among the leaders in the island's hospital sector. It provides inpatient and likely outpatient medical services to the Puerto Rican population. No further operational details are available from the leak post or a public site excerpt.

Industry: Hospital & Inpatient Healthcare

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim is a hospital network in Puerto Rico; any data publication from a healthcare provider almost certainly involves regulated patient data (PHI/PII) at scale, meeting the threshold for critical severity under HIPAA-covered entities, regardless of the sparse detail in the leak post.

The group Projectrelic claims to have attacked Doctors Center Hospital and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), though the leak post does not specify whether encryption, exfiltration, or both occurred, nor the volume of data involved.

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What the group claims

Doctors' Center Hospital is among the leaders in the hospital network of Puerto Rico.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Projectrelic

Projectrelic is a ransomware group that emerged in November 2022, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns and victim extortion activities. The group has been documented attacking 46 organizations primarily across the United States, United Kingdom, India, Germany, and France, with a focus on technology, manufacturing, construction, and education sectors, though many victims' sector classifications remain undocumented. Limited public intelligence exists regarding Projectrelic's country of origin, organizational structure, or potential affiliations with other cybercriminal groups, and it remains unclear whether they operate as an independent entity or utilize a ransomware-as-a-service model. Similarly, detailed information about their specific attack methodologies, initial access vectors, encryption techniques, or use of double extortion tactics has not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms or law enforcement agencies. The group has not been associated with any particularly high-profile attacks or record ransom demands that have garnered significant public attention from security researchers or government agencies. Based on available reporting, Projectrelic appears to maintain some level of operational activity, though comprehensive assessments of their current operational status are limited due to the relatively sparse public documentation surrounding this particular threat actor. The group has been linked to 46 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 11, 2022; most recent post November 9, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

December 18, 2022Doctors Center Hospital listed by Projectrelicon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Projectrelic

Projectrelic has been linked to 46 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Doctors Center Hospital is reported in Puerto Rico, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Projectrelic means Doctors Center Hospital appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Monitor for the data appearing on Projectrelic's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.